The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-02
PRINCESS BISMARCK.
A Not Very Refined Woman Who
Likes to Have Her Way.
London Letter to the Ne,o York Sun.

London Letter to the Ne,c York Sun.
A friend who, during visit to HON.
burg, has met and frequently dined with
Bismarck's wife kindly sends me an inter-
esting description of her Princess Bis
marck, who alone enjoys the privilege of
telling the master of Europe that he needs
to change his collar or to be more careful
about his personal appearance in general,
was originally FrBulein Won Puttkamer, a
member of a noble Pomeranian family, and
she is a most interesting woman. although
probably not one in thousand readers has
ever heard anything about her. She can
not be called lovely. She is past so, very
| tall, and very gray. Her face is very strong,
| with large cheek bones. She is rather what
a character of Dickens describes as a fine
| figure of a woman" inclined, perhaps, to
be bony. Her acquaintance with the peo-
| pie at Homburg and Frankfort dates from
| the time long ago when Bismarck. not in the
| least great man then, was simply an
official at Frankfort. She made Friends
| then to whom she has always remained
true, and to whom she goes every year to
see
Wherever Mrs. Bismarck is she rules.
| When she enters a house every window
must be closed tight, and no door can re-
| main needlessly open, as she shares with the
| French their morbid dread of currents of
air At table she is fond of talking, and
speaks very loud and decidedly. She gets
| very much excited in discussion, and to con-
| tradict her is not safe. She is very fond of
music and discusses it learnedly, although
she really knows little about it, This
causes many wordy battles between her and
her old friend, Baroness Willie Rothschlld,
one OF the friends gained in Bismarck's less
important days. The Baroness is old, and,
like most Rothschilds, not remarkable fcf.
beauty, but she is bright really
knows something about music, writes
French songs, and composes a great deal.
and the Princess Bismarck do great deal
of talking about it.
The Princess shares her husbands digest
i've trouble, and relies, like him, upon the
advice of the expert DR.. Schweininger,
but, like her grand husband and the old
Emperor, she quite refuses to be governed
in her living by medical advice, and my cor
respondent writes me how she drinks
champagne almost frozen, in spite of the
entreaties of her lady companion. precise
and amiable old stiftsdame. ''The only I'M
favorable thing about Princess Won Bis
marck," says my correspondent naively, sis
that she neglects to consider how youth
should be talked to, and even at table,
where young girls may be, does not repress
her tendency to relate tales with faint of
Boccaccio.o
Princess Bismarck has brought her boys
up in the way they should go, and, although
she lived long time in a little hotel on
Kiselegstrasse, they came frequently to see
her, Herbert from Konigstein and William,
who calls himself and likes to be called Bill
Bismarck, from Hainau, not far from
Frankfort, where he is landrath. Neither
of the boys resembles his mother, but they
take after their father, especially William,
who is wonderfully exact, though men
tally diluted reproduction